Nigeria Matters

The 250ml liquid antiseptic on my table as I write now commands attention. The product is called “YESS Antiseptic” and bears the tagline “always protecting”. It is meant “for external …

The 2019 Governorship election in Rivers State was a peculiar one. APC lost its place on the ballot due to internal crisis fuelled by external interlopers. Within 2 days, it …

Members of the community where I live did not start a vigilante group because the Nigerian minister of Defence asked us to protect ourselves. We decided to over the spate …

I woke up the other day to the news that certain youths from the northern side of the country are allegedly blocking food trucks from ferrying goods down south. It …

Let’s play politics – party politics, that is. No less a worthy than Aristotle stated that man is by nature a political animal, and who am I not to obey …

There is every indication that the unguarded spirited moves in certain quarters, to present a common candidate for Edo Central, to succeed the incumbent Governor of Edo State, Godwin Obaseki, …

With the successes recorded so far in the Transportation sector, particularly in the Railway Revolution, would Amaechi have done better as Defense Minister with the level of insecurity facing the …

Man: You dey go Maryland? Keke Driver: Make we dey go. Man: How much? Keke Driver: (Scans him and realizes he is new to the city): #1,500. Teacher to Students: …

Corruption is one of many intractable social pathologies ravaging Nigeria. Corruption is a symptom of deep institutional weakness which leads to inefficient economic, social and political outcomes. Corruption embraces a …

The Nigerian Police Force is an outdated, inefficient and corruption-ridden institution that lacks the ability to fight crime in the 21st century. The lawlessness of the Fulani herdsmen has yet …

The Fulani (Fula, Fulah, Fulbe, Fellata) is one of the most written about ethnic groups in the world. I am not certain that they are, in total, up to 70 …

Nigeria needs help. Like seriously and fast. We all must accept this, especially from the many intractable issues of insecurity, infrastructural decay and the political anemia of the present dispensation. …

Chinua Achebe has stolen my thunder by stating that the trouble with Nigeria is leadership. In my own book, the trouble with Nigeria is a house. Yes, the source of …

I cannot rule out the possibility of an invention that will have a fundamental impact on tomorrow’s people much more than how the internet has impacted our world. Man has …

For those of us in the Diaspora, there is need for absolute caution on how we yield our platforms for some felonious elements who masquerade as business or political leaders …

Fellow tenants in this mad-house called Nigeria, lend me your ears! Whether Cesar should be buried or praised, is Mark Anthony’s business. Mine is to unmask the epistemic plagues afflicting …